Tasty hears that SEIU-UHW’s
recent Executive Board meeting ended in chaos after board members caught SEIU-UHW
officials in a multi-million dollar lie.
Apparently, Dave Regan
has been hounding Executive Board members to sign up their co-workers to make monthly
financial contributions to SEIU-UHW’s COPE
fund. These contributions -- which are used for politics -- are voluntary.
In response to Regan's persistent pressure, board members have
been saying: ‘We’re already paying as much as $134 a month in union dues. Why do we need
to make more contributions to
SEIU-UHW? Can’t you use some of our dues money for politics?’
SEIU-UHW officials -- doing their best Pinocchio imitation
-- have blatantly lied to board members by telling them that the law prohibits
the union from using workers’ dues money for political purposes.
Great strategy, right? Lying to your own Board of Directors.
At SEIU-UHW’s December board meeting, Executive Board
members discovered various line items in Regan’s 2015 budget that clearly
demonstrate that Regan is steering millions of workers’ dues dollars into politics. This is nothing new. Tasty last month reported
that Regan is attempting to quadruple the amount of money that's taken from
union members' dues and funneled into a Political Action Committee (PAC) that Regan
recently set up with his pal, Duane
Dauner, the CEO of the California
Hospital Association.
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| SEIU-UHW's Greg Moron |
Once the truth was out of the bag at SEIU-UHW’s recent board
meeting, things went from worse to worser, as George Bush would say.
SEIU-UHW staffer Greg
Maron -- affectionately known by workers as "Mr.
Moron" -- was forced to admit that he’d been lying to board members for
months.
And true to his well-earned reputation, Mr. Moron stood in front of the
union's board and began digging himself into a deep, muddy hole:
I didn't tell you the truth because this is complicated stuff. Let me try to dumb it down for you…
At this point, the room literally erupted, according to observers.
Nothing better than having an overpaid punk of a union staffer (Moron has pocketed as much as $140,000 a year under Regan) stand up in front
of the union's elected board of directors and tell them they’re "STUPID."
Way to go, Greg!
